View Post People Joan Rivers Has Died. ‘Her Greatest Joy Was to Make People Laugh’ By Chris Ariens on Sep. 4, 2014 - 3:19 PM Comedian Joan Rivers has died. The news came from Rivers’ daughter, Melissa just before 3pmET. Rivers, who was 81, stopped breathing while undergoing outpatient surgery in New York City a week ago today. She was rushed Mount ...
View Post ABC ABC Newsers Toast Ben Sherwood By Chris Ariens on Aug. 22, 2014 - 12:11 PM As Ben Sherwood heads West, his East Coast colleagues sent him off in style last night at the Nomad Hotel in New York’s Flatiron District. Sherwood, named co-president of Disney/ABC TV in March, is moving his family to Los A ...
View Post NBC Katie Couric Won’t Be Guest Hosting ‘Today’ By Chris Ariens on Aug. 19, 2014 - 3:59 PM The New York Post says Katie Couric won’t be returning to “Today” after all during Savannah Guthrie’s maternity leave. We hear NBC offered one-day stints to Couric and other special guests, including Jane P ...
View Post ABC | CNN Are CNNers Leading the Pack for ‘The View’ Co-Host Spots? By Jordan Chariton on Aug. 8, 2014 - 1:44 PM It’s looking more like “The View” will have a cable news-infused makeover. First, as reported yesterday, MSNBC VP Bill Wolff is poised to take over as EP. Now we’re hearing CNN “Crossfire” co-ho ...
View Post ABC | Fox News Elisabeth Hasselbeck: ‘I Don’t Hate Rosie’ By Jordan Chariton on Jul. 11, 2014 - 11:27 AM The exchange between Rosie O’Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck continues as Hasselbeck responded on Instagram last night to O’Donnell’s critical Twitter comments about her. Hasselbeck noted that she’s given ...
View Post ABC | Fox News Rosie O’Donnell Returning to ‘The View’ By Jordan Chariton on Jul. 10, 2014 - 12:32 PM Rosie O’Donnell is returning to “The View” as a co-host in the fall, ABC confirmed via Twitter a short time ago. ABC says O’Donnell will be a co-host of the show joining moderator Whoopi Goldberg. The show ...
View Post ABC | Fox News Hasselbeck: Barbara Walters’ Farewell Show Was Rosie O’Donnell’s ‘Hello Show’ By Jordan Chariton on Jul. 9, 2014 - 10:39 AM As Rosie O’Donnell is reportedly set to return to “The View,” her former co-host and current Fox News host Elisabeth Hasselbeck chimed in this morning. “Talk about not securing the border,” a vacation ...
View Post ABC Rosie O’Donnell to ‘The View;’ Is MSNBC’s Abby Huntsman Next? By Jordan Chariton on Jul. 8, 2014 - 3:58 PM As Rosie O’Donnell prepares for a return to “The View,” which is what TMZ is reporting, there is increased speculation that the new right-leaning panelist will come from the cable news ranks. Abby Huntsman co-hos ...
View Post TV Biz The Saturday Ticker: Bolton, Beck/Hannity, TV News Women By Merrill Knox on Jul. 5, 2014 - 9:21 AM Deirdre Bolton talks about her new FBN show in Suburban Life magazine: “They’re very supportive of creativity, which is unusual in the media right now; when have a good idea, you can go for it,” she says. Glenn Beck ...
View Post ABC Barbara Walters on the New ‘View:’ We Don’t Have a New Direction Yet By Chris Ariens on Jul. 2, 2014 - 12:13 PM Barbara Walters, the co-executive producer of ‘The View,” says she’s not sure what the future holds for the show, but that there will be a show. Last night at a movie premiere in New York, Extra’s A.J. Call ...